"Lost's" penultimate was like a thematic episode
"'What They Died For' is a lot of things," says Todd VanDerWerff. "It's a fantastic episode of 'Lost,' one that moves like a rocket. cool. It's a big, relatively well-handled infodwnld ok good bit I saw did seem stayed w conversatn when I tht wld not show us (eg Jacob's "sit down & I'll explain it all)that makes sure we know how everything & everyone fits into the big picture, mostly. It's an episode that makes sure everyone is in place for the finale.It's a reminder that even though the show is going to do 'did' big mythology episodes now & again, it's always going to return 'returned' to the characters we loved from the regular cast. It makes a big case for the flash-sideways as being completely necessary to the series' narrative. it did? ok I must really hv missed a fair bit In some ways, it's an episode that makes last week's "Across the Sea" seem retroactively much more important (and I'll be very surprised if the finale doesn't make it seem even more important)."
Ben is the new Man in Black [peteramescarlin*] (hmm?)// What a perfect setup for the finale [hitfix sepinwall]
This week's episode made up for all the "half-dozen stinkers" this season [slate]
Jimmy Fallon asks, "Kate or Juliet?": "Both at the same time," says Matthew Fox [vid: intense qstns skit]
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*peteramescarlin -Lost in Translation: Have you ever heard about the Midnight Rambler?
A surfeit of goodness somehow leads to evil. Weird, huh? And yet, somehow, an essential, inescapable truth. The white side must have its dark other side. Yin and yang. Up and down. The Beatles and the Stones.
re Ben as new MiB,int to recall Ben greeting Jack, at Locke's coffin. "it's dark, Jack. very dark." loved that line.
and they have to take Locke's body. (have we learned why Ben thought that? just, in order to get back? per Eloise, have to have Locke on the plane to make it more like flight 815, a corpse wearing Christian Shepherd's shoes. ~well.
so Ben and Jack together working to go back, to get the O6 to go back.
and there's a striking difference btw Ben & MiB, who has always wanted to get off the island. Ben always wants to be there, wants it to be his island. right? so, okay, could be that Ben will represent a dark force to Jack's force of light, maybe. a rather different dynamic, though. what would Ben be trying to do?

re this epsd, read:*Tuned In. (Sepinwall.) TvdW. ~zap2it. **DocJ.

"Bored" Sarah Silverman grills "Lost's" Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse [funnyordie vid 'SizzleAlert']
"I couldn't help but notice that you're both huge f*cking nerds." [tvtattle.com/2010/05/19/9798 permalink -int: post #s counting down; this is more recent post, nearer top of page, #9798 ]


Judges seemed hellbent on pumping up Lee to "Idol" viewers [Salon - re Final 3 performance] y they did [tvtattle.com/2010/05/19/9800 permalink]
+ re Idol: twopJacob, DFienberg, Tunedin. done done done. Jacob vs DFienberg rather strikingly diff rxns ~ eg, Jacob re Travis whoever performance "may have to check out his record ~ well played" where Fienberg totally snarkily dismissed.


Tuesday: Idol finals Crystal v Lee. [Wednesay two hours: 'The top 12 finalists reunite; the winner is revealed.']
and Glee epsd 'Theatricality' w songs of Lady Gaga, huh.
and Parenthood finale.


and after that's all over > > [later after Lost | read back re BrkgBad, Tara (watch)
Recap: Breaking Bad 3.9 Kafkaesque -TvdW, HitFix
Breaking Bad 3.9 Kafkaesque: Just a little off the top -ASepinwall, HitFix
Tara 2.9: Family Portrait: Cheating yourself -ASepinwall, HitFix
+ fr this Sunday there will be a new Breaking Bad (epsd 10 of 13 this seasn, so after that there will be three left) to watch & read about. & on Monday a new Tara (epsd 10 of 12, so after that there will be two left) so I'll have 2 epsds to catch up on watching. or could wait & watch last four (epsd 9,10,11,12) at once, wh I think wld play well.

then: All Done ? _________________________________________________________________

til eventual summer fare ~ -Weeds. -True Blood. (both recapped at twop by jacob, I think). -The Closer.
...(in fall) -Dexter. ... (& sometime in 2010) -In Treatment.

True Blood: third season will air beginning [Sunday] June 13, 2010, according to HBO. (wkp) ~12 epsds?
The Closer: sixth season will debut [Monday] July 12. (ggl - tvguide) ~ 12 summer episodes? then 3 in December
Weeds: The sixth season will premiere on [Monday] August 16, 2010. -13 epsds (wkp)
Linda Hamilton will be joining the cast as Linda, who, along with her partner Fiona, will help Nancy begin her dealings in Seattle.^[13] Seattle! huh. fifth season ended with? ah right, Pilar in the pool. so maybe Nancy has to take off. goes w sons to Seattle? int.
Dexter: fifth season set to premiere in September 2010.^[8]